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Thursday, December 13, 2012

December 2012 Sewing Day Recap

Hi Everyone!Jessie
here.Per Katie’s suggestion, I will
post a formal introduction soon, but for now, here’s a recap of December's sewing
day!

First, our most exciting bit of news, in case you didn't see her comment on the previous post, is that Carrie attended our sewing day, went home and took a nice walk with her husband, and then went to the hospital and had her baby girl! Baby Claire was born Sunday morning, 12/9/12. Congrats Carrie! We can't wait to meet her!

We had some great informal discussions of where the group is
headed in the next year, and I will write those up in a separate post as well,
so there is lots of room for commenting and discussion.

Most of us brought personal sewing projects to work on, and
a lot of us also contributed to the charity quilt that we are doing through
QuiltCon, which will go to a children’s shelter in Austin next spring.We got a packet of donated blocks from the
national MQG, to which a lot of our members added another block or two at the
meeting, and we played around with the design as well.

These are the blocks we started with- mostly from the national challenge but a couple were made by our group.

We settled on massing all of the improv blocks
together towards the bottom of the quilt, and adding white negative space above
them as well as a sort of rainbow effect around the edges.It for a kid's shelter, after all, and we want
it to be cheery.

You can see the top of the rainbow in the background here.

Deanne, who owns a
quilt shop and pattern company outside Austin, TX, was in town and so she
popped in on the meeting, and helped us work on the design and construction of
the charity quilt.

Thanks mostly to
Deanne, who has lots of experience busting out samples for her pattern
business, the improv blocks and the rainbow sections are assembled into rows
and are just awaiting their negative space before final assembly.A few members are meeting at Elle’s house
this weekend to finish up the assembly and Aubrie has volunteered to quilt
it!Yay!

And here are the pics from the best part of any sewing day: Show
and Tell!Click on the photos to take
you to our Flickr pool, where some discussion and commenting is going on.

One more thing, I am so sad that I did not get any pics of a new attendee’s
project: Amy had hundreds of little
squares of Liberty scraps and shot cottons to be assembled postage-stamp style.My heart was fluttering so much at the sight
of all that beauty that I completely forgot to pick up my camera.Amy, if you have a picture of your squares,
please add it to the Flickr pool, or email it and I will put it up so everyone can
admire them!

Lost and found after the meeting: a tiny rotary cutter, box of straight pins, Wendy's pin cushion (my fault for hiding it, sorry!) and a root beer scented pencil. Let me know if you are missing these things.

2 comments:

It was another very fun day with the guild and to work on the charity quilt project was a great added bonus. I am so excited to learn that Carrie went home had dinner and a walk then went to hospital for delivery. What a great way to cap off her day and end our 2012 with welcome news. I know she was READY for it to happen.